Refereed Papers
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Halsted, C., Bierman, P., Codilean, A., Corbett, L., and Caffee, M. (submitted, 8/2024) Global analysis of in situ cosmogenic 26Al/10Be ratios in fluvial sediments indicates widespread sediment storage and burial during transport. Geochronology. doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2024-223Nørgaard, J., Margold, M., Jansen, J., Szuman-Kalita, I., Kurbanov, R., Andersen, J.L., Pedersen, V.K, Olsen, J., Corbett, L. B, Bierman, P.R., and Knudsen, M.F. (submitted, 7/2024) A Late Pleistocene glacial maximum during MIS 3 in the Chersky Mountains, central Northeast Siberia. Quaternary Research.
Cavnar, P.M., Bierman, P.R., Shakun, J.D., Corbett, L. B., LeBlanc, D., Galford, G.L., and Caffee, M. (in review, 7.2024) In situ Cosmogenic 10/Be and 26Al in deglacial sediment reveals interglacial exposure, burial, and limited erosion under the Quebec-Labrador Ice Dome. Geochronology. doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2233
Haag, M., Schoenbohm, L., Wolpert, J., Jess, S., Bierman, P., Corbett, L., Sommer, C. and Endrizzi, G. (in review, 7/2024) Rock strength controls erosion in tectonically dead landscapes, Science Advances.
Collins, C., Perdrial, N., Blard, P.-H., Keulen, N., Mahaney, W.C., Mastro, H., Souza, J., Rizzo, D.M., Marrocchi, Y. and Bierman, P.R. (in review, 6/2024) Characterization of the 1966 Camp Century Sub-Glacial Core: A Multiscale Analysis, EGUsphere [preprint] (Climate of the Past/The Cryosphere inter-journal Special Issue). 10.5194/egusphere-2024-2194
Shao, K., Moon, S, Li, G. K., Haproff, P. J., Yin, A., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Argueta, M. O., and Hidy, A.J, (in review, 4/2024) Climatic controls on erosional efficiency vary with lithology across the Himalaya, Nature Communications Earth & Environment.
Coppersmith, R. T., Slack, C., Cawthra, H., Bierman, P.R., Drebber, J. (in review, 4/2024) Assessing Recency of Faulting in the Stable Continental Region of Western Cape, South Africa, Environmental & Engineering Geoscience.
Bennett. I, Bierman, P.R., Soto-Villanueva,K., Sosa-Gonzalez, V. and Corbett, L. (in review, 2/2024) Successes and challenges in developing a program to engage underrepresented college students in environmental science research. The Journal of Geoscience Education.
Papers in Revision
Greene, E. S., Bierman, P. R. and Perdrial, N. (in revision, 10/2017) Towards a better understanding of 10Be and 9Be dynamics in river sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.Schmidt, A. H., Sosa-Gonzalez, V., Bierman, P. R., McPhillips, D. and Rood, D. (in revision, 5/2017) Topographic control of steady state erosion at the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters.
Borg, J., Stryker, J. J., Bierman, P. R. and Dewoolkar, M. M. (in revision, 4/2016) Streambank stability assessment using in situ monitoring and computer modeling. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
Slack, C., Hanson, K., Coppersmith, R., Neveling, J., Bierman, P. R., Forman, S. and Goedhart, M. (in revision, 2/2016) Paleo-seismic Investigations of the Kango Fault, South Africa: Incorporating temporal and spatial clustering behavior into a seismic source characterization model. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
Borg, J., Bierman, P. R., Dewoolkar, M., Rizzo, D. and Rood, D. (in revision, 2/2012) Meteoric 10Be adhered to suspended sediment: source and transport dynamics in a large New England watershed. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface.
DeJong, B. D., Hidy, A. J. and Bierman, P. R. (in revision, 4/2015) Optimizing cosmogenic burial isochrons using muon-inclusive simple burial dating. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research.
Nichols, K. K., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. H. (in revision, 2/2017) Cosmogenic 10Be and sediment budgets reveal a multi-aged Grand Canyon. GEOLOGY.
Papers Accepted or in press
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Bierman, P. R., Christ, A. J., Collins, C. M., Mastro, H. M., Souza, J., Blard, P.-H., Brachfeld, S., Courville, Z. R., Rittenour, T. M., Thomas, E. K., Tison, J.-L., and Fripiat, F. (2024): Scientific history, sampling approach, and physical characterization of the Camp Century sub-glacial sediment core, a rare archive from beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet (Climate of the Past/The Cryosphere inter-journal Special Issue) 10.5194/tc-18-4029-2024Tanski, N.M., Rittenour, T.M., Pavano, F., Pazzaglia, F.J., Mills, J., Corbett., L.B., and Bierman, P.R., (2024). Quartz luminescence sensitivity enhanced by residence time in the critical zone. Quaternary Geochronology. 10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101613
Bergelin, M., Balco, G., Corbett, L, and Bierman, P.R. (2024) Production rate calibration for cosmogenic 10Be in pyroxene by applying a rapid fusion method to 10Be-saturated samples from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Geochronology. 10.5194/gchron-6-491-2024
Bierman, P.R, Mastro, H. M., Corbett., L.B.,Steig, E. J., Halsted, C. T. Caffee, M. M., Hidy, A. J., Balco, G., Peteet, D. M., Bennike, O. and Rock, B. (2024) Plants, insects, and fungi under Greenland’s ice – evidence of ice-free times, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 10.1073/pnas.2407465121
Bennett. I. and Bierman, P.R. (2024) A century of urban landslides: the legacy and consequences of altering riverbank landscapes, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Lyell Society. 10.1144/qjegh2023-032
Corbett, A., Bierman, P. R., Caffee, M. W., Hidy, A. J., and Woodruff, T. E. (2024) Quantifying replication through repeated analysis of UVM-A, a liquid reference material for cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al studies. Quaternary Geochronology. 10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101498
Munroe, J., Laabs, B., Corbett, L., Bierman, P., and Handwerger, A. (accepted, 3/2024) Rock Glacier Movement and Debris Transport over Annual to Multi-Millennial Timescales. JGR Earth Surface. 10.1029/2023JF007453
Pavano, F., Pazzaglia, F., Rittenour, T., Catalano, S.,Corbett, L., and Bierman, P. (2024) Integrated uplift, subsidence, erosion, and deposition in a tightly Coupled source to sink system, Pagliara basin, northeastern Sicily, Italy. Basin Research. 10.1111/bre.12845
2023
Portenga, E. W., Ullman, D. J., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., and Caffee, M. (2023) Early Holocene ice retreat from Isle Royale in the Laurentian Great Lakes constrained with 10Be exposure-age dating, Geochronology. doi.org/10.5194Argueta, M.O., Moon, S.,Blisniuk, K., Brown, N.,Corbett, L. Bierman, P., and Zimmerman, S. R. H. (2023) Examining the influence of disequilibrium landscape on millennial-scale erosion rates in the San Bernardino Mountains, California, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 10.1130/B36734.1
Dethier, D.P., Leopold, M., Völkel, J., Buylaert, J., Murray, A, Nelson, R., Madole, R. Corbett,L., Bierman, P. and Rosenbaum, J. (2023) Chronology and erosion rate of the Pinedale glaciation, Colorado Front Range (USA), inferred from the sedimentary record of glacial Lake Devlin, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 10.1130/B36971.1
Schoenemann, S.W., Bryant, M. M., Larson, W.B., Corbett, A., Bierman, P. R. (2023) A cosmogenic 10Be moraine chronology of arid, alpine Late Pleistocene glaciation in the Pioneer Mountains of Montana, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108283
Halsted, C. T, Bierman, P. R., Shakun, J. D., Davis, P. T., and Corbett, L. B., (2023) A critical re-analysis of constraints on the timing and rate of Laurentide Ice Sheet recession in the northeastern United States, Journal of Quaternary Science. 110.1002/jqs.3563
Christ, A.J., Rittenour, T.M., Bierman, P.R., Keisling, B.A., Knutz, P.C., Thomsen, T.B., Keulen, N., Fosdick, J.C., Hemming, S.R., Tison, J-L., Blard, P-H., Steffensen, J.P., Caffee, M.W., Corbett, L.B., Dahl-Jensen, D., Dethier, D.P., Hidy, A.J., Perdrial, N., Peteet, D.M., Schaefer, J.M., Steig, E.J., and Thomas, E.K. (2023). Deglaciation of northwestern Greenland during Marine Isotope Stage 11. Science. doi.org/10.1126/science.ade4248
Drebber, J., Halsted, C., Corbett, L., Bierman, P., and Caffee, M. (in review, 6/2023) In-situ cosmogenic 10Be dating of Laurentide Ice Sheet retreat from central New England, USA, Geosciences 2023, 13(7), 213 doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13070213
Blard, P.H. and 13 others, (2023) Basal debris of the NEEM ice core, Greenland: a window into sub-ice sheet geology, basal ice processes and ice sheet oscillations. Journal of Glaciology. doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.122
Brosens, L., Cox, R., Campforts, B.,Jacobs, L, Vanacker, V., Bierman, P., Razanamahandry, V. F., Rakotondrazafy, A.F.M, Razafimbelo, T., Rafolisy, T. and Govers, G. (2023) The slow downwearing of Madagascar: inferring patterns and controls on long-term basin-averaged erosion rates from in-situ 10Be at the catchment and regional level, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi.org/10.1002/esp.5586
Winkler, S. R., Mbele, V., L., Khosa, R. R.,Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Hidy, A., Brown, T., Makhubela, T. V., Kramers, J., and Tooth, S. (2023) 10Be at iThemba LABS using a silicon nitride membrane stack as absorber for isobar suppression, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, B 10.1016/j.nimb.2023.03.024 10.1016/j.nimb.2023.03.024
LeBlanc, D. E., Shakun, J. D., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Caffee, M. W., and Hidy, A. (2023) Laurentide Ice Sheet persistence during Pleistocene interglacials, Geology. doi.org/10.1130/G50820.1
2022
Halsted,C., Bierman,P., Shakun, J., Davis, P. T., Corbett, L., Caffee, M., Hodgdon, T., and Licciardi, J. (2022) Rapid southeastern Laurentide Ice Sheet thinning during the last deglaciation revealed by elevation profiles of in-situ cosmogenic 10Be, GSA Bulletin. doi.org/10.1130/B36463.1Bender, A. M., Lease, R.O., Corbett, L. C, Bierman, P.R. Caffee, M.W., Jones, J.V. and Kreiner, D. (2022) Yukon River incision drove organic carbon burial in the Bering Sea during global climate changes at 2.6 and 1 Ma, Earth Surface Dynamics. doi.org/10.5194/esurf-10-1041-2022
Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Brown, T. A., Caffee, M. W., Fink, D., Freeman, S., P.H.T., Hidy, A. J., Rood, D. H., Wilcken, K. M., and Woodruff, T. E. (2022) Clean quartz matters for cosmogenic nuclide analyses: An exploration of the importance of sample purity using the CRONUS-N reference material, Quaternary Geochronology. doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101403/
Christ, A. and Bierman, P. (2022) From a secret cold war project to the future of the ice sheet, PAGES Horizons, v.2, p. 56-65, doi.org/10.22498/pages.horiz.2.56 doi.org/10.22498/pages.horiz.2.56
Bergelin, M., Putkonen, J., Balco, G., Morgan, D., Corbett, L., and Bierman, P. (2022) Cosmogenic nuclide dating of two stacked ice masses: Ong Valley, Antarctica. Geochronology. doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2793-2022
Mae Kate Campbell and others, (2022) Cosmogenic nuclide and solute flux data from central Cuban rivers emphasize the importance of both physical and chemical mass loss from tropical landscapes, Geochronology. 10.5194/gchron-4-435-2022
Corbett, L. B.,Bierman, P. R., Semken, S., and Whittaker, J. A. (2022) Can Community Laboratory Facilities Increase Access and Inclusivity in Geoscience?, Earth and Space Science. doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002028
VanLandingham, L., Portenga, E. W., Lefroy, T., Bierman,P. R., and Hidy, A. J. (2022) Comparison of basin-scale in situ and meteoric 10Be erosion and denudation rates in felsic lithologies across an elevation gradient at the George River, northeast Tasmania, Australia, Geochronology, 4, 153–176 doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-153-2022
Quock, M., Schmidt, A.H., Corbett, L.B., Bierman, P.R., Hidy, A.J., and Caffee, M.W. (2022). Hurricanes alter 10Be concentrations in tropical river sediment but do not change regional erosion rate estimates. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi.org/10.1002/esp.5310
Del Vecchio, J., DiBiase, R. A., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Caffee, M. W. and Ivory, S. J. (2022) Increased Erosion Rates Following the Onset of Pleistocene Periglaciation at Bear Meadows, Pennsylvania, USA. Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 49, Issue 4. doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096739
Bierman, P.R. and Schmidt, A. (2022), Living IN the Greenland ice sheet: the story of Sites I and II, Camp Century’s older, smaller siblings click here to read
A. Hughes, D. H. Rood, D. E. DeVecchio, A. C. Whittaker, R. E. Bell, K. M. Wilcken, L. B. Corbett, P. R. Bierman, T. K. Rockwell (2022), Tectonic controls on Quaternary landscape evolution in the Ventura basin, southern California, USA, quantified using cosmogenic isotopes and topographic analyses . Geological Society of America Bulletin. doi.org/10.1130/B36076.1
2021
Christ, A. J., Bierman, P. R., Lamp, J. L.,Schaefer, J. M. and Winckler G. (2021) Cosmogenic nuclide exposure age scatter records glacial history and processes in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Geochronology. doi.org/10.5194/gchron-3-505-2021Diaz, M.A., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Adams, B. J., Wall, D. H., Hogg, I. D., Fierer, N. and Lyons, W. B. (2021)) Relationship between meteoric 10Be and NO3− concentrations in soils along Shackleton Glacier, Antarctica. Earth Surface Dynamics. doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-1363-2021
Halsted, C.T., Bierman, P. R., and Balco, G. (2021) Empirical evidence for latitude and altitude variation of the in situ cosmogenic 26Al/10Be production ratio. Geosciences. doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11100402
Bierman, P. R., (2021) The US Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago – it didn’t go well. The Conversation. click to read
Markewich, H.W., Pavich, M.J., Mahan, S.A., Bierman, P.R., Alemán‑González, W.B., and Schultz, A.P., 2021, Synthesis of geochronologic research on Late Pliocene to Holocene emergent shorelines in the lower Savannah River area of southeastern Georgia, USA: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2021–1015, 48 p.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20211015
Christ, A. J. and Bierman, P. R., (2021) Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland’s ice – and lost in a freezer for years – hold lessons about climate change. The Conversation. click to read
Christ, A.J. and 16 others, (2021) A multi-million-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021442118
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Grande, A., Schmidt, A., Bierman, P., Corbett, L., López-Lloreda, C., Willenbring, J., McDowell, W., and Caffee, M., (2021) Landslides, hurricanes, and sediment sourcing impact basin-scale erosion estimates in Luquillo, Puerto Rico, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.1168218
Bierman, P. (2021) My university plans to terminate my department. We’re trying to save it, Science, vol. 371, issue 6527 p. 434. doi:10.1126/science.caredit.abg6529
2020
Graly, J. A., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Lini, A., Neumann, T. A., (2020) Corrigendum to "Meteoric Be-10 as a Tracer of Subglacial Processes and Interglacial Surface Exposure in Greenland" (Vol 191, Pg 118, 2018). Quat. Sci. Rev., v. 239, 106366. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106366Koester, A. J., Shakun, J. D., Bierman, P. R., Davis, P. T., Corbett, L. B., Goehring, B.M., Vickers, A. C., Zimmerman, S. R., (2020) Laurentide Ice Sheet thinning and erosive regimes at Mount Washington, New Hampshire, inferred from multiple cosmogenic nuclides, GSA Special Paper. doi.org/10.1130/2020.2548(15)
Balco, G., DeJong, B., Ridge, J. C., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. H., (2020) Atmospherically-produced beryllium-10 in annually laminated late-glacial sediments of the North American Varve Chronology, Geochronology. doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2020-16
Bierman, P. R, Bender, A. M., Christ, A., Corbett, L., Halsted, C., Portenga, E., and Schmidt, A., (2020) Dating by Cosmogenic Nuclides, Encyclopedia of Geology, Second Edition, p. 101-115. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102908-4.00124-7
Corbett, L., Bierman, P. R., Neumann, T. A., Graly, J. A., Shakun, J. D., Goehring, B. M., Hidy, A. J., Caffee, M.W., (2020) Measuring multiple cosmogenic nuclides in glacial cobbles sheds light on Greenland Ice Sheet processes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116673
Bender, A., Lease, R. O., Corbett, L. B. Bierman, P. R., Caffee, M. W., and Rittenour, T. (2020) Late Cenozoic climate change paces landscape adjustments to Yukon River capture. Nature Geoscience. doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0611-4
Pico, T., Bierman, P., Doyle, K., & Richardson, S. (2020). First authorship gender gap in the geosciences. Earth and Space Science, 7, e2020EA001203. doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001203
Bierman, P.R. and Schmidt, A. (2020) Cuba’s clean rivers show the benefits of reducing nutrient pollution. The Conversation. click to read
Bierman, P. (2020) Teamwork, the Cuban way, Working Life, Science, vol. 367, issue 6483 p. 1274. doi.org/10.1126/science.367.6483.1274
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Bierman et al. (2020) ¡Cuba! River water chemistry reveals rapid chemical weathering, the echo of uplift, and the promise of more sustainable agriculture. GSA TODAY. doi.org/10.1130/GSATG419A.1
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2019
Christ, A. J., Bierman, P. R., Knutz. P., Corbett, L. B., Fosdick, J.C., Thomas, E. K., Cowling, O. C., Hidy, A. J. and Caffee, M.W., (2019) The northwest Greenland Ice Sheet during the Early Pleistocene was similar to today. Geophysical Research Letters. 10.1029/2019GL085176Weiss, H. S., Bierman, P. R., Hamshaw, S. D. and Dubief, Y. (2019) Optimization of over-summer snow storage at midlatitude and low elevation. Cryosphere. doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3367-2019
Regalla, C., Bierman, P.R., and Rood, D. (2019) Meteoric 10Be reveals a young, active accretionary prism and structurally complex décollement in the vicinity of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake rupture, G-Cubed. doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008483
Darling, A., Whipple, K.X., Bierman,P. R., Clarke, B. and Heimsath, A., (2019) Resistant rock layers amplify cosmogenically‐determined erosion rates. doi.org/10.1002/esp.4730
McCarthy, J. A., Schoenbohm, L. M., Bierman, P. R., Rood, D. and Hidy, A. J. (2019) Late Quaternary Tectonics, Incision, and Landscape Evolution of the Calchaquí River Catchment, Eastern Cordillera, NW Argentina. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface. doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005091
Neely, A.B., DiBiase, R.A., Corbett, L.B., Bierman, P.R., and Caffee, M.W., (2019) Bedrock fracture density controls on hillslope erodibility in steep, rocky landscapes with patchy soil cover, southern California, USA, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 522, p. 186-197, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.06.011
Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Woodruff, T. E. and Caffee, M. W. (2019) A homogeneous liquid reference material for monitoring the quality and reproducibility of in situ cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al analyses. NIMB Proceedings. doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2019.05.051
Christ, A. and Bierman, P.R. (2019) The local Last Glacial Maximum in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: implications for ice-sheet behavior in the Ross Sea Embayment. Geological Society of America Bulletin. doi.org/10.1130/B35139.1
Portenga, E., Bierman, P. R., Trodick, C., Dejong, B., Greene, S. and Pavich, M. (2019) Erosion rates and sediment flux within the Potomac River basin quantified over millennial timescales using beryllium isotopes. GSA Bulletin. doi.org/10.1130/B31840.1
Bender, A. M., Lease, R. O., Haeussler, P. J., Rittenour,T. , Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Caffee, M. W. (2019) Pace and process of active folding and fluvial incision across the Kantishna Hills anticline, Central Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters. doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081509
2018
Bierman,P., Fosdick, J., Guenthner, W., Keen-Zebert, A., Koppers, A., Schmitz, M. and Schoene, B. (2018), A Deeper Investment for Deep Time Science. EOS, 99, doi.org/10.1029/2018EO112125Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Wright,S., Shakun, J., Davis, P.T., Goehring, B., Halsted, C., Koester, A., Caffee, M., and Zimmerman, S. (2018) Analysis of multiple cosmogenic nuclides constrains Laurentide Ice Sheet history and process on Mt. Mansfield, Vermont’s highest peak, Quaternary Science Reviews. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.12.014
Schmidt, A., Denn, A., Alan J Hidy, A. J., Bierman, P. R. and Ya Tang (2018) Human and natural controls on erosion in the Lower Jinsha River, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.10.017
Hughes, A., Rood, D. H., Whittaker, A. C., Bell, R. E., Rockwell, T. K., Levy, Y., Wilcken, K. M., Corbett, L. B., DeVecchio, D. D., Bierman, P. R., Marshall, S. T., Gurrola, L. D. and Nicholson, C. (2018) Geomorphic evidence for the geometry and slip rate of a young, low-angle thrust fault: Implications for hazard assessment and fault interaction in complex tectonic environments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 504, p. 198-210.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.10.003
DiBiase, R., Denn, A., Bierman, P. R., Kirby, E., West, N. and Hidy, A. J. (2018) Stratigraphic control of landscape response to base-level fall, Young Womans Creek, Pennsylvania, USA. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 504, p. 163-173 doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.10.005
Moon, S., Merritts, D., Snyder, N. P., Bierman, P. R., Fosdick, J., Sanquini, A. and Hilley, G. E. (2018) Erosion of coastal drainages in the Mendocino Triple Junction region (MTJ), northern California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v. 502, p. 156-165. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.09.006
Shakun, J. D., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Underwood, K., Rizzo, D. M., Zimmerman, S. R., Caffee, M. and Naish, T. (2018) Minimal East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat onto land during the past eight million years. Nature. v. 558, p. 284-287. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0155-6
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Bender, A. M., Lease, R. O., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R. and Caffee, M. W. (2018) Ongoing bedrock incision of the Fortymile River driven by Pliocene–Pleistocene Yukon River capture, eastern Alaska, USA, and Yukon, Canada. Geology. Published online: 7 June 2018. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.009
Graly, J. A., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Lini, A. and Neumann, T. (2018) Meteoric 10Be as a tracer of subglacial processes and interglacial surface exposure in Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews. v. 191, p. 118-131. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.009
Del Vecchio, J., DiBiase,, R. A., Denn, A. R., Bierman, P. R., Caffee, M.W., and Zimmerman, S. R. (2018) Record of coupled hillslope and channel response to Pleistocene erosion and deposition in a sandstone headwater valley, central Pennsylvania. Geological Society of America Bulletin. Published online: 14 May 2018. doi.org/10.1130/B31912.1
Bierman, P. R., Shakun, J., Portenga, E., Rood, D, and Corbett, L. B. (2018). Directly dating postglacial Greenlandic land-surface emergence at high resolution using in situ 10Be. Quaternary Research. Published online: 12 April 2018. doi.org/10.1017/qua.2018.6
Denn, A., Bierman, P. R.R., Caffee, M., Zimmerman, S., Corbett, L. B., and Kirby, E. (2018) Cosmogenic nuclides indicate that boulder fields are dynamic, ancient, multigenerational features. GSA Today. v. 28(3-4), p.4-10. doi.org/10.1130/GSATG340A.1
2017
Schmidt, A. H., Sosa-Gonzalez, V., Bierman, P. R., Neilson, T. B.,Rood, D. (2017) Agricultural land use doubled sediment loads in western China's rivers. Anthropocene. v. 21, p. 95-106. doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2017.10.002Neilson, T. B., Schmidt, A. H., Bierman, P. R., Sosa-Gonzalez, V., and Rood, D. (2017) Efficacy of in situ and meteoric 10Be mixing in fluvial sediment collected from small catchments in China. Chemical Geology. v. 471, p. 119-130. doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.09.024
Bierman, P. R. and Portenga, E. (2017) Beryllium Isotopes. In: Encyclopedia of Geochemistry (W.M. White, ed.) Springer. Published online: 13 September 2017. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39193-9_81-1
Knudsen, C., Hopper, J. R., Bierman, P. R., Bjerager, M., Funck, T., Green, P. F., Ineson, J. R., Japsen, P., Marcussen, C., Sherlock, S. C. and Thomsen, T. B. (2017) Samples from the Lomonosov Ridge place new constraints on the geological evolution of the Arctic Ocean. Geological Society, London, Special Publications. v. 460, p. 397-418. doi.org/10.1144/SP460.17
Sosa-Gonzalez, V., Schmidt, A. H., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. (2017) Spatial and temporal replicability of meteoric and in situ 10Be concentrations in fluvial sediment, Earth Surface Process and Landforms. v. 42, p. 2570-2584. doi.org/10.1002/esp.4205
Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Larsen, P., Stone, B. D. and Caffee, M. W. (2017) Cosmogenic nuclide age estimate for Laurentide Ice Sheet recession from the terminal moraine, New Jersey, USA, and constraints on Latest Pleistocene ice sheet history. Quaternary Research. v. 87(3), p. 482-498. doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.11
Reusser, L., Bierman, P. R., Rizzo, D. M. and Rood, D. H. (2017) Characterizing landscape-scale erosion using 10Be in detrital fluvial sediment: slope-based sampling strategy detects the effect of widespread dams. Water Resources Research. v. 53, p. 4476-4486. doi.org/10.1002/2016WR019774
Singleton, A. A., Schmidt, A. H., Bierman, P. R., Rood, D., Neilson, T. B., Greene, E. S., Bower, J. A. and Perdrial, N. (2017) Effects of grain size, mineralogy, and acid-extractable grain coatings on the distribution of the fallout radionuclides 7Be, 10Be, 137Cs, and 210Pb in river sediment. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. v. 197, p. 71–86. doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.10.007
Portenga, E. W., Bishop, P., Rood, D. H. and Bierman, P. R. (2017) Combining bulk sediment OSL and meteoric 10Be fingerprinting techniques to identify gully initiation sites and erosion depths. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. v. 122(2), p. 513-517. doi.org/10.1002/2016JF004052
Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Rood, D. H., Caffee, M. W., Lifton, N. A. and Woodruff, T. E. (2017), Cosmogenic 26Al/10Be surface production ratio in Greenland. Geophysical Research Letters, v. 44(3), p. 1350-1359. doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071276
Koester, A., Shakun, J., Bierman, P. R.R., Corbett, L. B., Davis, P.T., Braun, D. and Zimmerman, S. (2017) Rapid thinning of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in coastal Maine, USA, during late Heinrich Stadial 1. Quaternary Science Reviews. v. 163, p. 180-192. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.005
Linari (Sullivan), C. L., Bierman, P. R.R., Portenga, E., Pavich, M.J., Finkel, R.C. and Freeman, S. (2017) Rates of erosion and landscape change along the Blue Ridge escarpment, southern Appalachian Mountains, estimated from in situ cosmogenic 10Be. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. v. 42, p. 928-940. doi.org/10.1002/esp.4051
2016
Bierman, P. R., Shakun, J., Rood, D, Corbett, L. B. and Zimmerman, S. (2016) A persistent and dynamic East Greenland Ice Sheet over the past 7.5 million years. Nature. v. 540, p. 256–260. doi.org/10.1038/nature20147(see press coverage)
(Vermont Public Radio interview)
(read Nature news report)
(read Todays Science report)
Schmidt, A. H., Neilson, T. B., Bierman, P. R., Rood, D., Ouimet, W.B. and Sosa-Gonzalez, V. (2016) Influence of topography and human activity on apparent in situ 10Be-derived erosion rates in Yunnan, SW China. Earth Surface Dynamics. v. 4, p. 819-830. doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-819-2016
Sosa-Gonzalez, V., Bierman, P. R., Nichols, K. K. and Rood, D. H. (2016) Long-term erosion rates of Panamanian drainage basins determined using in situ 10Be. Geomorphology. v. 275, p. 1–15. doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.04.025
Sosa-Gonzalez, V., Bierman, P. R., Fernandes, N. F. and Rood, D. H. (2016) Long-term background denudation rates of southern and southeastern Brazilian watersheds estimated with cosmogenic 10Be . Geomorphology. v. 268, p. 54–63. doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.05.024
Wohl, E., Bierman, P. R. and Montgomery, D. R. (2016) Earth’s dynamic surface: A perspective on the past 50 years in geomorphology. Geological Society of America Book Chapter, Special Paper 523. Published online: 1 July 2016. doi.org/10.1130/2016.2523(01)
Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R. and Davis, P.T. (2016) Glacial history and landscape evolution of southern Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island, Canada, constrained by cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al. Geological Society of America Bulletin. v. 128(7-8), p. 1173-1192. doi.org/10.1130/B31402.1
Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. H. (2016) Constraining multi-stage exposure-burial scenarios for boulders preserved beneath cold-based glacial ice in Thule, Northwest Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v. 440, p. 147–157. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.004
Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. H. (2016) An approach for optimizing in situ cosmogenic 10Be sample preparation, Quaternary Geochronology. v. 33., p. 24-34. doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2016.02.001
Portenga, E. W., Rood, D. H., Bishop, P. and Bierman, P. R. (2016) A late Holocene onset of Aboriginal burning in southeastern Australia. Geology. v. 44(2), p. 131-134. doi.org/10.1130/G37257.1
(see press release)
(ABC news story)
McPhillips, D., Hoke, G. D., Liu-Zeng, J., Bierman, P. R., Rood, D. H. and Niedermann, S. (2016) Dating the incision of the Yangtze River Gorge at the First Bend using three-nuclide burial ages. Geophysical Research Letters. v. 43, p. 101-110. doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066780
Bender, A. M., Amos, C. B., Bierman, P. R.R., Rood, D. H., Staisch, L., Kelsey, H. and Sherrod, B. (2016) Differential uplift and incision of the Yakima River terraces, central Washington State. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. v. 121, p. 365-384. doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012303
Whitney, B. B., Clark, D., Hengesh, J. V. and Bierman, P. R. (2016) Paleoseismology of the Mount Narryer fault zone, Western Australia: A multistrand intraplate fault system. Geological Society of America Bulletin. v. 128(3-4), p. 684-704. doi.org/10.1130/B31313.1
2015
Bierman, P. R., Davis, P. T., Corbett, L. B., Lifton, N. and Finkel, R. (2015) Cold-based Laurentide ice covered New England’s highest summits during the Last Glacial Maximum. Geology. v. 43(12), p. 1059-1062. doi.org/10.1130/G37225.1(see related blog post)
Bierman, P. R. (2015) The incision history of the Great Falls of the Potomac River—The Kirk Bryan field trip. Geological Society of America Field Guide. v. 40, p. 1-10. doi.org/10.1130/2015.0040(01)
(see video of the trip)
DeJong, B. D., Bierman, P. R., Newell, W. L., Rittenour, T. M., Mahan, S.A., Balco, G. and Rood, D. H. (2015) Pleistocene relative sea levels in the Chesapeake Bay region and their implications for the next century. GSA Today. v. 25(8), p. 4-10. doi.org/10.1130/GSATG223A.1
Pelletier, J. D., Murray, A. B., Pierce, J. L., Bierman, P. R., Breshears, D. D., Crosby, B. T., Ellis, M., Foufoula-Geourgiou, E., Heimsath, A. M., Houser, C., Lancaster, N., Marani, M., Merritts, D. J., Moore, L. J., Pederson, J. L., Poulos, M. J., Rittenour, T. M., Rowland, J. C., Ruggiero, P., Ward, D. J., Wickert, A. D. and Yager, E. M. (2015) Forecasting the response of Earth's surface to future climatic and land-use changes: A review of methods and research needs. Earth's Future. v. 3, 220-251. doi.org/10.1002/2014EF000290
Dickerson, R. and Bierman, P. R. (2015) Alluvial fan surfaces and an age-related stability for cultural resource preservation: Nevada Test and Training Range, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, USA. Journal of Archaeological Science. v. 2, p. 551-568. doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.05.002
Davis, P. T., Bierman, P. R., Corbett, L. B. and Finkel, R. (2015) Cosmogenic exposure age evidence for rapid Laurentide deglaciation of the Katahdin area, west-central Maine, USA, 16 to 15 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews. v. 116, p. 95-105. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.03.021
Pupim, F. do N., Bierman, P. R., Assine, M. L., Rood, D. H., Silva, A. and Merino, E. R. (2015) Erosion rates and landscape evolution of the lowlands of the Upper Paraguay river basin (Brazil) from cosmogenic 10Be. Geomorphology. v. 234, p. 151-160. doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.01.016
Duxbury, J., Bierman, P. R., Larsen, J., Pavich, M. J., Southworth, S., Miguéns-Rodríguez, M. and Freeman, S. (2015) Erosion rates in and around Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, determined using analysis of cosmogenic 10Be. American Journal of Science. v. 315, p. 46–76. doi.org/10.2475/01.2015.02
Ouimet, W., Dethier, D., Bierman, P. R., Wyshnytsky, C., Shea, N. and Rood, D. (2015) Spatial and temporal variations in meteoric 10Be inventories and long term deposition rates, Colorado Front Range. Quaternary Science Reviews. v. 109, p. 1-12. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.11.003
Wyshnytzky, C., Ouimet, W. B., McCarthy, J. A., Dethier, D. P., Shroba, R. R. and Bierman, P. R. (2015) Meteoric 10Be, clay, and extractable iron depth profiles in the Colorado Front Range: Implications for understanding soil mixing and erosion. CATENA. v. 127, p. 32–45. doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2014.12.008
Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Lasher, G. E. and Rood, D. (2015) Landscape chronology and glacial history in Thule, northwest Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews. v. 109, p. 57-67. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.11.019
Reusser, L., Bierman, P. R., and Rood, D. (2015) Quantifying human impacts on rates of erosion and sediment transport at a landscape scale. Geology. v. 43(2), p. 171-174. doi.org/10.1130/G36272.1
Portenga, E., Bierman, P. R., Duncan, C., Corbett, L. B., Kehrwald, N. M. and Rood, D. (2015) Erosion rates of the Bhutanese Himalaya determined using in situ-produced 10Be. Geomorphology. v. 233, p. 112-126. doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.09.027
Jull, A. J. T., Scott, E. M. and Bierman, P. R. (2015) The CRONUS-Earth inter-comparison for cosmogenic isotope analysis. Quaternary Geochronology. v. 26, p. 3-10. doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2013.09.003
2014
McPhillips, D., Bierman, P. R., Sweeney, M. and Rood, D. R. (2014) Millennial-scale record of landslides in the Andes consistent with earthquake trigger. Nature Geoscience. v. 7, p. 925–930. doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2278Nichols, K. K., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. (2014) 10Be constrains the sediment sources and sediment yields to the Great Barrier Reef from the tropical Barron River catchment, Queensland, Australia. Geomorphology. v. 224, p. 102–110. doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.07.019
Foley, F., Turner, S., Rushmer, T., Caulfield, J. T., Bierman, P. R., Daczko, N. R., Robertson, M. and Boyce, A. J. (2014) 10Be, 18O, and radiogenic isotopic constraints on the origin of adakitic signatures: A case study from Solander and Little Solander Islands, New Zealand. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. Published online: 29 August 2014. doi.org/10.1007/s00410-014-1048-9
Bierman, P. R., Coppersmith, R., Hanson, K., Neveling, J., Portenga, E. and Rood, D. (2014) A cosmogenic view of erosion, relief generation, and the age of faulting in Southern Africa. GSA Today. v. 24(9), p. 4-11. doi.org/10.1130/GSATG206A.1
Bierman, P. R., Corbett, L. B., Graly, J., Neumann, T., Lini, A., Crosby, B. and Rood, D. (2014) Preservation of a pre-glacial landscape under the center of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Science. v. 344(6182), p. 402-405. doi.org/10.1126/science.1249047
Dethier, D. P., Ouimet, W., Bierman, P. R., Rood, D. H. and Balco, G. (2014) Basins and bedrock: Spatial variation in 10Be erosion rates and increasing relief in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA. Geology. v. 42(2), p. 167-170. doi.org/10.1130/G34922.1
West, N., Kirby, E., Bierman, P. R. and Clarke, B. (2014) Aspect-dependent variations in regolith creep revealed by meteoric 10Be. Geology. v. 42(6), p. 507-510. doi.org/10.1130/G35357.1
Nelson, A. H., Bierman, P. R., Shakun, J. D. and Rood, D. H. (2014) Using in situ cosmogenic 10Be to identify the source of sediment leaving Greenland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. v. 39, p. 1087-1100. doi.org/10.1002/esp.3565
2013
Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Graly, J., Neumann, T. and Rood, D. (2013) Constraining landscape history and glacial erosivity using paired cosmogenic nuclides in Upernavik, Northwest Greenland. Geological Society of America Bulletin. v. 125(9-10), p. 1539-1553. doi.org/10.1130/B30813.1Balco, G., Soreghan, G. S., Sweet, D. E., Marra, K. R. and Bierman, P. R. (2013) Cosmogenic-nuclide burial ages for Pleistocene sedimentary fill in Unaweep Canyon, Colorado, USA. Quaternary Geochronology. v. 18, p. 149–157. doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2013.02.002.
Young, N. E., Briner, J., Rood, D., Finkel, R., Corbett, L. B. and Bierman, P. R. (2013) Age of the Fjord Stade moraines in western Greenland and early Holocene abrupt climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews. v. 60, p. 76–90. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.09.028
Portenga, E. W., Bierman, P. R., Rizzo, D. M. and Rood, D. H. (2013) Low rates of bedrock outcrop erosion in the central Appalachian Mountains inferred from in situ 10Be. Geological Society of America Bulletin. v. 125(1-2), p. 201-215. doi.org/10.1130/B30559.1
Regalla, C., Kirby, E., Fisher, D. and Bierman, P. R. (2013) Active forearc shortening in Tohoku, Japan: Constraints on fault geometry from erosion rates and fluvial longitudinal profiles. Geomorphology. v. 195, p. 84–98. doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.04.029
Miller, S. R., Sak, P. B., Kirby, E. and Bierman, P. R. (2013) Neogene rejuvenation of central Appalachian topography: Evidence for differential rock uplift from stream profiles and erosion rates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v. 369-370, p. 1-12. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.007
McPhillips, D., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. R. (2013) Landscape response to Pleistocene-Holocene precipitation changes in the Western Cordillera, Peru: 10Be concentrations in modern and terrace sediments, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. v. 118(4), p. 2488–2499. doi.org/10.1002/2013JF002837
West, N., Kirby, E., Bierman, P. R., Slingerland, R., Ma, L., Brantley, S. and Rood, D. (2013) Regolith production and transport at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, Part 2: Insights from meteoric 10Be. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. v. 118(3), p. 1877-1896. doi.org/10.1002/jgrf.20121
Vang, A. and Bierman, P. R. (2013) The cultural legacy of the Vermont Interstate System. Walloomsack Review. v. 10, p. 25-31.
(download pdf)
2012
Markewich, H. W., Pavich, M. J., Schultz, A. P., Mahan, S. A. and Bierman, P. R. (2012) Geochronologic evidence for a possible MIS-11 emergent barrier/beach-ridge in southeastern Georgia. Quaternary Science Reviews. v. 60, p. 49-75. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.041Enzel Y., Amit R., Grodek T., Ayalon A., Lekach J., Porat N., Bierman P. and Blum J. (2012) Late Quaternary weathering, erosion, and deposition in Nahal Yael, Israel: An “impact of climatic change on an arid watershed”?. Geological Society of American Bulletin. v. 124(5-6), p. 705-722. doi.org/10.1130/B30538.1
Bacon, A. R., Richter, D., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. H. (2012) Coupling meteoric 10Be with pedogenic losses of 9Be to improve soil residence time estimates on an ancient North American interfluve. Geology. v. 40(9), p. 1–4. doi.org/10.1130/G33449.1
Reusser, L. J., Corbett, L. B. and Bierman, P. R. (2012) Incorporating concept sketching into teaching undergraduate geomorphology. Journal of Geoscience Education. v. 60, p. 3-9. doi.org/10.5408/10-201.1
2011
West, N., Kirby, E., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. (2011) Preliminary estimates of regolith generation and mobility in the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, Pennsylvania, using meteoric 10Be. Applied Geochemistry. v. 26, p. S146-S148. doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.03.053Portenga, E. and Bierman, P. R. (2011) Understanding Earth’s Eroding Surface with 10Be. GSA Today. v. 21(8), p. 4-10. doi.org/10.1130/G111A.1
(download .xls data repository)
Corbett, L. B., Young, N. E., Bierman, P. R., Briner, J. P., Neumann, T. A., Graly, J. A. and Rood, D. H. (2011) Paired bedrock and boulder 10Be concentrations resulting from early Holocene ice retreat near Jakobshavn Isfjord, western Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews. v. 30(13-14), p. 1739-1749. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.001
Graly, J., Reusser, L. and Bierman, P. R. (2011) Short and long-term delivery rates of meteoric 10Be to terrestrial soils. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v. 302(3-4), p. 329-336. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.020
2010
Besaw, L. E., Rizzo, D. M., Bierman, P. R. and Hackett, W. R. (2010) Advances in ungauged streamflow prediction using artificial neural networks. Journal of Hydrology. v. 386(1-4), p. 27-37. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.02.037Graly, J., Bierman, P. R., Reusser, L. and Pavich, M., (2010) Meteoric 10Be in soil profiles – a global meta-analysis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 74(23), p. 6814-6829. doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2010.08.036
Lixin J., Ravella, R., Ketchum, B., Bierman, P. R., Heaney, P., White, T. and Brantley, S. L. (2010) Mineral weathering and elemental transport during hillslope evolution at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. v. 74(13), p. 3669–3691, doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2010.03.036
Matmon, A., Briner, J., Carver, G., Bierman, P. R. and Finkel, R. (2010) Moraine chronosequence of the Donnelly Dome region, Alaska: Implications for late Pleistocene glacial history of interior Alaska. Quarternary Research. v. 74(1), p. 63-72. doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2010.04.007
Pearce, A. R., Bierman, P. R., Druschel, G. K., Massey, C., Rizzo, D. M., Watzin, M. C. and Wemple, B. C. (2010) Pitfalls and successes of developing an interdisciplinary watershed field camp: Journal of Geoscience Education. v. 58(3), p. 213-220. doi.org/10.5408/1.3544295
Reusser, L. and Bierman, P. R. (2010) Using meteoric 10Be to track fluvial sand through the Waipaoa River Basin, New Zealand. Geology. v. 38(1), p. 47–50. doi.org/10.1130/G30395.1
Reusser, L., Graly, J., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. (2010) A new approach for constraining long-term meteoric 10Be deposition rates. Geophysical Research Letters. v. 37(19), p. L19403. doi.org/10.1029/2010GL044751
2009
Jungers, M. C., Bierman, P. R., Matmon, A., Nichols, K., Larsen, J. and Finkel, R. (2009) Tracing hillslope sediment production and transport with in situ and meteoric 10Be. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface. v. 114(F4), p. F04020. doi.org/10.1029/2008JF001086Parris, A. S., Bierman, P. R., Noren, A. J., Prins, M. and Lini, A. (2009) Holocene paleostorms identified by particle size signatures in lake sediments from the northeastern United States. Journal of Paleolimnology. v. 43(1), p. 29-49. doi.org/10.1007/s10933-009-9311-1
Cox, R., Bierman, P. R., Jungers, M. and Rakotondrazafy, M. (2009) Erosion rates and sediment sources in Madagascar inferred from 10Be analysis of lavaka, slope, and river sediment. Journal of Geology. v. 117(4), p. 363–376. doi.org/10.1086/598945
2008
Bierman, P. R., Gould, P., Lamb, J., Massey, C., Norton, S., Olson, J., Reusser, L. and Ungerleider, J. (2008) Global climate change - motivated high school students gain their voice. Teaching for High Potential, National Association for Gifted Children. Published online: Spring 2008. (download pdf)Hunt, A. L., Larsen, J., Bierman, P. R., and Petrucci, G. A., (2008) Investigation of factors that affect the sensitivity of accelerator mass spectrometry for cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al isotope analysis. Analytical Chemistry. v. 80(5), p. 1656-1663. doi.org/10.1021/ac701742p
2007
Bierman, P. R. (2007) Cosmogenic glacial dating, 20 years and counting. Geology. v. 35(6), p. 575-576. doi.org/10.1130/focus062007.1Hunt, A. L., Petrucci, G. A., Bierman, P. R. and Finkel, R. C. (2007) Investigation of metal matrix systems for cosmogenic 26Al analysis by accelerator mass spectrometry. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interaction with Materials and Atoms. v. 260(2), p. 633-636. doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2007.03.101
Massey, C. A. and Bierman, P. R. (2007) Teachers and kids dig old photos. Teaching for high potential, National Association for Gifted Children Journal. p. 5-6. (download pdf)
Nichols, K. K., Bierman, P. R., Eppes, M. C., Caffee, M., Finkel, R. and Larsen, J. (2007) Timing of surficial process changes down a Mojave Desert piedmont. Quaternary Research. v. 68(1), p. 151-161. doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2007.02.001
Reusser, L., and Bierman, P. R. (2007) Accuracy assessment of LiDAR-derived DEMs of bedrock river channels: Holtwood Gorge, Susquehanna River. Geophysical Research Letters. v. 34(23), p. L23S06. doi.org/10.1029/2007GL031329
2006
Bierman, P. R., Massey, C. and Manduca, C. (2006) Reconsidering the textbook. Eos. v. 87(31), p. 306. doi.org/10.1029/2006EO310004Briner, J. P., Gosse, J. C., and Bierman, P. R. (2006) Applications of cosmogenic nuclides to Laurentide Ice Sheet history and dynamics. Geological Society of America Special Paper. v. 415, p. 29-41. doi.org/10.1130/2006.2415(03)
Hunt, A. L., Petrucci, G. A., Bierman, P. R., and Finkel, R. C., (2006) Metal matrices to optimize ion beam currents for accelerator mass spectrometry. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. v. 243(1), p. 216-222. doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2005.07.220
Nichols, K. K., Bierman, P. R., Foniri, W. R., Gillespie, A. R., Caffee, M. and Finkel, R. (2006) Dates and rates of arid region geomorphic processes. GSA Today. v. 16(8), p. 4-11. doi.org/10.1130/GSAT01608.1
Reusser, L., Bierman, P. R., Pavich, M., Larsen, J. and Finkel, R. (2006) An episode of rapid bedrock channel incision during the last glacial cycle, measured with 10Be. American Journal of Science. v. 306(2), p. 69-102. doi.org/10.2475/ajs.306.2.69
Riihimaki, C. A., Anderson, R. S., Safran, E. B., Dethier, D. P., Finkel, R. C. and Bierman, P. R. (2006) Longevity and progressive abandonment of the Rocky Flats surface, Front Range, Colorado. Geomorphology. v. 78(3-4), p. 265-278. doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.01.035
2005
Bierman, P. R., Howe, J., Stanley-Mann, E., Peabody, M., Hilke, J. and Massey, C. A. (2005) Old images record landscape change through time. GSA Today. v. 15, p. 4-10. doi.org/10.1130/1052-5173(2005)015<4:OIRLCT>2.0.CO;2Bierman, P. R., Reuter, J. M., Pavich, M., Gellis, A. C., Caffee, M. W. and Larsen, J. (2005) Using cosmogenic nuclides to contrast rates of erosion and sediment yield in a semi-arid, arroyo-dominated landscape, Rio Puerco Basin, New Mexico. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. v. 30(8), p. 935-953. doi.org/10.1002/esp.1255
Nichols, K. K., Bierman, P. R., Caffee, M., Finkel, R. and Larsen, J. (2005) Cosmogenically enabled sediment budgeting. Geology. v. 33(2), p. 133-136. doi.org/10.1130/G21006.1
Nichols, K. K., Bierman, P. R., Eppes, M. C., Caffee, M., Finkel, R. and Larsen, J. (2005) Late Quaternary history of the Chemehuevi Mountain piedmont, Mojave Desert, deciphered using 10Be and 26Al. American Journal of Science. v. 305(5), p. 345-368. doi.org/10.2475/ajs.305.5.345
Persico, L. P., Nichols, K. K. and Bierman, P. R. (2005) Tracking painted pebbles: short-term rates of sediment movement on four Mojave Desert piedmont surfaces. Water Resources Research. v. 41(7), p. W07004. doi.org/10.1029/2005WR003990
Safran, E. B., Bierman, P. R., Aalto, R., Dunne, T., Whipple,
K. X. and Caffee, M. (2005) Erosion rates driven by channel network
incision in the Bolivian Andes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
v. 30(8), p. 1007-1024. doi.org/10.1002/esp.1259
2004
Bierman, P. R. and Nichols, K. (2004) Rock to sediment - Slope to sea with 10Be - Rates of landscape change. Annual review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. v. 32, p. 215-255. doi.org/10.1146/annurev.earth.32.101802.120539Gellis, A. C., Pavich, M. J., Bierman, P. R., Clapp, E. M., Ellevein, A. and Aby, S. (2004) Modern sediment yield compared to geologic rates of sediment production in a semi-arid basin, New Mexico: assessing the human impact. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. v. 29(11), p. 1359-1372. doi.org/10.1002/esp.1098
Reusser, L. J., Bierman, P. R., Pavich, M. J., Zen, E.-a.,
Larsen, J. and Finkel, R. (2004) Rapid Late Pleistocene incision of
Atlantic passive-margin river gorges. Science. v. 305(5683), p. 499-502. doi.org/10.1126/science.1097780
2003
Briner, J. P., Miller, G. H., Davis, P. T., Bierman, P. R. and Caffee, M. (2003) Last Glacial Maximum ice sheet dynamics in Arctic Canada inferred from young erratics perched on ancient tors. Quaternary Science Reviews. v. 22(5-7), p. 437-444. doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00003-9Butler, E. M., Bierman, P. R. and Gajda, R. H. (2003) Investigation-stimulated discussion sections make geoscience more relevant in large lecture class. Eos. v. 84(47), p. 517-522. doi.org/10.1029/2003EO470002
Jennings, K., Bierman, P. R. and Southon, J. (2003) Timing and style of deposition on humid-temperate fans, Vermont, United States. Geological Society of America Bulletin. v. 115(2), p. 182-199. doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(2003)115<0182:TASODO>2.0.CO;2
Matmon, A., Bierman, P. R., Larsen, J., Southworth, S., Pavich, M. and Caffee, M. (2003) Temporally and spatially uniform rates of erosion in the southern Appalachian Great Smoky Mountains. Geology. v. 31(2), p. 155-158. doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0155:TASURO>2.0.CO;2
Matmon, A. S., Bierman, P. R., Larsen, J., Southworth, S., Pavich, M., Finkel, R. and Caffee, M. (2003) ERRATA: Erosion of an ancient mountain range, the Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina and Tennessee. American Journal of Science. v. 303(9), p. 817-855. doi.org/10.2475/ajs.303.9.817
Matmon, A. S., Bierman, P. R., Larsen, J., Southworth, S., Pavich, M., Finkel, R. and Caffee, M. (2003) ERRATA: Erosion of an ancient mountain range, the Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina and Tennessee. American Journal of Science. v. 303(10), p. 972-973. doi.org/10.2475/ajs.303.10.972
Matmon, A., Crouvi, O., Enzel, Y., Bierman, P. R., Larsen, J., Porat, N., Amit, R. and Caffee, M. (2003) Complex exposure histories of chert clasts in the late Pleistocene shorelines of Lake Lisan, southern Israel. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. v. 28(5), p. 493-506. doi.org/10.1002/esp.454
Nichols, K. K., Bierman, P. R., Persico, L., Bosley, A.,
Melillo, P. and Kurfis, J. (2003) Quantifying land use and urban runoff
changes through service learning hydrology projects. Journal of
Geoscience Education. v. 51(4), p. 365-372. doi.org/10.5408/1089-9995-51.4.365
2002
Bierman, P. R. and Caffee, M. (2002) Cosmogenic exposure and erosion history of ancient Australian bedrock landforms. Geological Society of America Bulletin. v. 114(7), p. 787-803. doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<0787:CEAEHO>2.0.CO;2Brown, S., Bierman, P. R., Lini, A., Davis, P. T. and Southon, J. (2002) Reconstructing lake and drainage basin history using terrestrial sediment layers: analysis of cores from a post-glacial lake in New England, USA. Journal of Paleolimnology. v. 28(2), p. 219-236. doi.org/10.1023/A:1021623020656
Clapp, E., Bierman, P. R. and Caffee, M. (2002) Using 10Be and 26Al to determine sediment generation rates and identify sediment source areas in an arid region drainage basin. Geomorphology. v. 45(1-2), p. 89-104. doi.org/10.1016/S0169-555X(01)00191-X
Colgan, P. M., Bierman, P. R., Mickelson, D. M. and Caffee, M. W. (2002) Variation in glacial erosion near the southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, south-central Wisconsin, USA: Implications for cosmogenic dating of glacial terrains. Geological Society of America Bulletin. v. 114(12), p. 1581-1591. doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<1581:VIGENT>2.0.CO;2
Bierman, P. R., Caffee, M. W., Davis, P. T., Marsella, K., Pavich, M., Colgan, P., Mickelson, D. and Larsen, J. (2002) Rates and timing of Earth surface processes from in situ-produced cosmogenic 10Be, in Grew, E. S. ed. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry: Beryllium; mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry. Mineralogical Society of America and Geochemical Society, Washington, DC. v. 50, p. 147-205. doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2002.50.4
Matmon, A., Bierman, P. R. and Enzel, Y. (2002) Pattern and tempo of great escarpment erosion. Geology. v. 30(12), p. 1135-1138. doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<1135:PATOGE>2.0.CO;2
Nichols, K. K., Bierman, P. R., Hooke, R. L., Clapp, E. and Caffee, M. (2002) Quantifying sediment transport on desert piedmonts using 10Be and 26Al. Geomorphology. v. 45(1-2), p. 105-125. doi.org/10.1016/S0169-555X(01)00192-1
Noren, A. J., Bierman, P. R., Steig, E. J., Lini, A. and Southon, J. (2002) Millennial-scale storminess variability in the northeastern United States during the Holocene epoch. Nature. v. 419, p. 821-824. doi.org/10.1038/nature01132
Schildgen, T., Dethier, D., Bierman, P. R. and Caffee, M.
(2002) 26Al and 10Be dating of late Pleistocene and Holocene
fill terraces: a record of fluvial deposition
and incision, Colorado Front Range. Earth Surface
Processes and Landforms. v. 27(7), p. 773-787. doi.org/10.1002/esp.352
2001
Bierman, P. R. and Caffee, M. W. (2001) Slow rates of rock surface erosion and sediment production across the Namib Desert and escarpment, Southern Africa. American Journal of Science. v. 301(4-5), p. 326-358. doi.org/10.2475/ajs.301.4-5.326Bierman, P. R., Marsella, K. A., Davis, P. T. and Caffee, M. (2001) Reply to comments on "Mid-Pleistocene cosmogenic minimum-age limits for pre-Wisconsinan glacial surfaces in southwestern Minnesota and southern Baffin Island: a multiple nuclide approach". Geomorphology. v. 39(3-4), p. 255-260. doi.org/10.1016/S0169-555X(00)00102-1
Clapp, E. M., Bierman, P. R., Nichols, K. K., Pavich, M. and Caffee, M. (2001) Rates of sediment supply to arroyos from upland erosion determined using in situ produced cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al: Quaternary Research. v. 55(2), p. 235-245. doi.org/10.1006/qres.2000.2211
Gran, S. E., Matmon, A. S., Bierman, P. R., Enzel, Y., Caffee, M. and Rizzo, D. (2001) Displacement history of a limestone normal fault scarp northern Israel from cosmogenic 36Cl. Journal of Geophysical Research. v. 106(B3), p. 4247-4264. doi.org/10.1029/2000JB900373
Nichols, K. K. and Bierman, P. R. (2001) Fifty-four years of ephemeral channel response to two years of intense World War II military activity, Camp Iron Mountain, Mojave Desert, California. Geological Society of America Reviews of Engineering Geology. v. 14, p. 123-136. doi.org/10.1130/REG14-p123
Schroeder, P. A., Melear, N. D., Bierman, P. R., Kashgarian, M. and Caffee, M. W. (2001) Apparent gibbsite growth ages for the regolith in the Georgia Piedmont. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. v. 65(3), p. 381-386. doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7037(00)00541-X
Zehfuss, P. H., Bierman, P. R., Gillespie, A. R.,
Burke, R. M. and Caffee, M. W. (2001) Slip rates on the Fish Springs
fault, Owens Valley, California, deduced from cosmogenic 10Be
and 26Al and soil development on fan surfaces. Geological
Society of America Bulletin. v. 113(2), p. 241-255. doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<0241:SROTFS>2.0.CO;2
2000
Abbott, M., Lini, A. and Bierman, P. R. (2000) δ18O, δD and 3H measurements constrain groundwater recharge mechanisms in an upland fractured bedrock aquifer, Vermont, USA. Journal of Hydrology. v. 228(1-2), p. 101-112. doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1694(00)00149-9Brown, S. L., Bierman, P. R., Lini, A. and Southon, J. (2000) A 10,000 year record of extreme hydrologic events. Geology. v. 28, p. 335-338. doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2000)028<0335:YROEHE>2.3.CO;2
Clapp, E. M., Bierman, P. R., Schick, A. P., Lekach, J., Enzel, Y. and Caffee, M. (2000) Sediment yield exceeds sediment production in arid region drainage basins. Geology. v. 28(11), p. 995-998. doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<995:SYESPI>2.0.CO;2
Marsella, K. A., Bierman, P. R., Davis, P. T. and Caffee,
M. W. (2000) Cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al ages for the
last glacial maximum, eastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Geological
Society of America Bulletin. v. 112(8), p. 1296-1312. doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(2000)112<1296:CBAAAF>2.0.CO;2
1999
Bierman, P. R., Marsella, K. A., Patterson, C., Davis, P. T. and Caffee, M. (1999) Mid-Pleistocene cosmogenic minimum-age limits for pre-Wisconsinan glacial surfaces in southwestern Minnesota and southern Baffin Island; a multiple nuclide approach. Geomorphology. v. 27(1-2), p. 25-39. doi.org/10.1016/S0169-555X(98)00088-9Davis, P. T., Bierman, P. R., Marsella, K. A., Caffee, M. W. and Southon, J. R. (1999) Cosmogenic analysis of glacial terrains in the eastern Canadian Arctic: a test for inherited nuclides and the effectiveness of glacial erosion. Annals of Glaciology. v. 28, p. 181-188. doi.org/10.3189/172756499781821805
Gran, S. E., Nichols, K. and Bierman, P. R. (1999) Teaching winter geohydrology using frozen lakes and snowy mountains. Journal of Geoscience Education. v. 47(5), p. 420-447. doi.org/10.5408/1089-9995-47.5.420
1998
Loso, M., Schwartz, H., Wright, S. and Bierman, P. R. (1998) Composition, morphology, and genesis of a moraine-like feature in the Miller Brook valley, Vermont. Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences. v. 20, p. 1-10. (download pdf)1997
Bierman, P. R. (1997) Reply to comment by C. Rowland Twidale. Quaternary Research. v. 48(3), p. 386-389. doi.org/10.1006/qres.1997.1935Bierman, P. R., Lini, A., Davis, P. T., Southon, J., Baldwin, L., Church, A. and Zehfuss, P. (1997) Post-glacial ponds and alluvial fans: recorders of Holocene landscape history. GSA Today. v. 7, p. 1-8. (download pdf)
Schneider, J. S. and Bierman, P. R. (1997) Surface dating
using rock varnish in Taylor, R. E., and Aitken, M., eds.
Chronometric dating in archaeology. p. 357-388. doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9694-0_12
1996
Bierman, P. R. and Clapp, E. M. (1996) Estimating geologic age from cosmogenic nuclides; an update. Science. v. 271(5255), p. 1606. doi.org/10.1126/science.271.5255.1606aBierman, P. R. and Steig, E. (1996) Estimating rates of denudation and sediment transport using cosmogenic isotope abundances in sediment. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. v. 21(2), p. 125-139. doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199602)21:2<125::AID-ESP511>3.0.CO;2-8
Clapp, E., Bierman, P. R., Church, A. B., Larsen, P. L.,
Schuck, R. A. and Hanzas, J. P. (1996) Teaching geohydrology through
analysis of groundwater resources and glacial geology, Northwestern
Vermont. Journal of Geoscience Education. v. 44, p. 45-51. doi.org/10.5408/1089-9995-44.1.45
1995
Bierman, P. R. and Gillespie, A. R. (1995) Reply to comments on "Evidence suggesting that methods of rock-varnish cation ratio dating are neither comparable nor consistently reliable". Quaternary Research. v. 43(2), p. 272-273. doi.org/10.1006/qres.1995.1031Bierman, P. R., Gillespie, A. and Caffee, M. (1995) Cosmogenic age-estimates for earthquake recurrence intervals and debris-flow fan deposition, Owens Valley, California. Science. v. 270(5235), p. 447-450. doi.org/10.1126/science.270.5235.447
Bierman, P. R., Gillespie, A., Caffee, M. and Elmore, D. (1995) Estimating erosion rates and exposure ages with 36Cl produced by neutron activation. Geochemica et Cosmochemica Acta. v. 59(18), p. 3779-3798. doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(95)00267-4
Bierman, P. R. and Turner, J. (1995) 10Be and 26Al evidence for exceptionally low rates of Australian bedrock erosion and the likely existence of pre-Pleistocene landscapes. Quaternary Research. v. 44(3), p. 378-382. doi.org/10.1006/qres.1995.1082
Clark, D., Bierman, P. R. and Larsen, P. (1995) Improving in situ cosmogenic chronometers. Quaternary Research. v. 44(3), p. 367-377. doi.org/10.1006/qres.1995.1081
Gillespie, A. R. and Bierman, P. R. (1995) Precision of
terrestrial exposure ages and erosion rates estimated from analysis of
cosmogenic isotopes produced in situ. Journal of Geophysical Research - Soild Earth. v. 100(B12), p. 24637-24649. doi.org/10.1029/95JB02911
1994
Bierman, P. R. (1994) Using in situ produced cosmogenic isotopes to estimate rates of landscape evolution; a review from the geomorphic perspective. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. v. 99(B7), p. 13885-13896. doi.org/10.1029/94JB00459 Bierman, P. R., and Gillespie, A. R. (1994) Evidence
suggesting that methods of rock-varnish cation-ratio dating are neither
comparable nor consistently reliable. Quaternary Research. v. 41(1), p.
82-90. doi.org/10.1006/qres.1994.1009
1992
Bierman, P. R. and Gillespie, A. R. (1992) Reply to comments on "Accuracy of rock varnish chemical analyses: implications for cation ratio dating". Geology. v. 20(5), p. 469-472. doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1992)020<0469:CAROAO>2.3.CO;2Bierman, P. R. and Gillespie, A. R. (1992) Reply to comments on "Range fires: A significant factor in exposure-age determination and geomorphic surface evolution". Geology. v. 20(3), p. 283-285. doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1992)020<0283:CARORF>2.3.CO;2
Bierman, P. R., Gillespie, A., Harrington, C., Raymond, R., McFadden, L. and Wells, S. (1992) Throwing rocks. American Scientist. v. 80, p. 110-112. (download pdf)
Bierman, P. R. and Kuehner, S. (1992) Accurate and precise
measurement of rock varnish chemistry using SEM/EDS. Chemical Geology. v. 95(3-4), p. 283-297. doi.org/10.1016/0009-2541(92)90017-Y
1991
Bierman, P. R., Gillespie, A. R. and Kuehner, S. (1991) Precision of rock-varnish chemical analyses and cation-ratio ages. Geology. v. 19(2), p. 135-138. doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1991)019<0135:PORVCA>2.3.CO;2Bierman, P. R. and Gillespie, A. R. (1991) Accuracy of rock varnish chemical analyses: implications for cation ratio dating. Geology. v. 19(3), p. 196-199. doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1991)019<0196:AORVCA>2.3.CO;2
Bierman, P. R. and Gillespie, A. R. (1991) Range fires: A
significant factor in exposure-age determination and geomorphic surface
evolution. Geology. v. 19(6), p. 641-644. doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1991)019<0641:RFASFI>2.3.CO;2
1990
Bierman, P. R. (1990) Groundwater in the Purple Valley, the lingering influence of glacier ice. A Journal. v. 7, p. 13-17. (download pdf)1988
Bierman, P. R., Marler, L. and Martin, B. (1988) Ground water in an upland valley -- the lingering influence of a glacial lake, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Proceedings of FOCUS conference, New England. National Water Well Association. p. 274-298. (download pdf)1986
Bierman, P. R. and Dethier, D. (1986) Lake Bascom and the deglaciation of Northwestern Massachusetts. Northeastern Geology. v. 8, p. 32-43. (download pdf)